THE ARCHIVE

WORTH KNOWING. WORTH KEEPING.

Every fact, quote, and term we’ve ever shared — growing one entry at a time.

Compersion
Feeling genuine joy at someone else’s happiness or success — the mirror opposite of envy.
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The first principle of recovery is the empowerment of the survivor.
Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery
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Choice overload: research suggests having too many options can make decisions harder and satisfaction lower, not better — more choice isn’t always more freedom.
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Emotional Labor
The effort of managing and displaying certain emotions as part of a role or relationship, often invisible to everyone else involved.
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Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.
bell hooks, All About Love
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Social loafing: people tend to put in less individual effort when working as part of a group than when working alone, since responsibility feels shared and diffused.
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
An expectation that shapes behavior in ways that make the expected outcome more likely to actually happen.
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The heart of justice is truth telling.
bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
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The availability heuristic: people judge how likely something is based on how easily examples come to mind, not on its actual statistical frequency.
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Alexithymia
Difficulty identifying and describing your own emotions, even while clearly experiencing them.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
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Research popularized by anthropologist Robin Dunbar suggests humans can only realistically maintain around 150 stable social relationships at once.
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Confabulation
Creating false memories or explanations without any intent to deceive — the mind filling gaps with plausible details that aren’t actually accurate.
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When two become one—connection can no longer happen.
Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity
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The peak-end rule: people tend to judge an entire experience mostly by its most intense moment and how it ended, not by the average of how it felt overall.
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